Tag: allspice

• Longing and weight gain; best purple cabbage ever

  Years ago my best friend in the newsroom, the sunniest person I’ve ever known besides our younger grandson, asked if I’d ever been sad for something I’d never had. It’s taken me more than 40 years to figure out that’s all I was! Not knowing, of course, meant I was always trying to fill that hole…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 5, 2016

  Balance, Comfort food, Compulsive eating, Emo eating, Emotional side of weight loss, Handling loss without eating, Sidedishes, Taking care of ourselves

  allspice, apples, Martha Rose Shulman, Red cabbage, The Rainbow Comes and Goes

• Travels with Tootsie, sweet potato and peanut stew

  Any day that begins with a video conversation with Dora the Explorer and one of her older sisters calling to say they’re coming for Christmas is a fab one. Saturday morning the Tanzania group was in the middle of 3.5  internet-free weeks on their schedule. So everyone went into a Stonetown internet cafe to upload pictures and…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 24, 2012

  African food, Casseroles, Emo eating, Exercise, Fall, Tomatoes, vegetables

  allspice, cumin, onions, slow-cooker, sweetpotatoes, Tomatoes